The parallels between core yoga principles and my scientific process

Several months ago I completed a 35-hour yoga teacher training class. In the course of that training and in the months following as I tried to maintain my yoga practice while finishing my doctoral dissertation, I found that several of the core yoga principles were translatable to my scientific process. By applying those translatable principles to my daily scientific life, I felt more productive and focused. So I want to outline the principles and my application of them to my life as a grad student here.